Jack McDowell, Ph.D.

Selected Publications

McDowell, J. J, & Caron, M. L. (2007). Undermatching is an emergent property of selection by consequences. Behavioural Processes, 75, 97-106.

McDowell, J. J, Soto, P. L., Dallery, J., & Kulubekova, S. (2006). A computational theory of adaptive behavior based on an evolutionary reinforcement mechanism. In M. Keijzer (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO-2006) (pp. 175-182). New York: ACM Press

Soto, P. L., McDowell, J. J, & Dallery, J. (2006). Feedback functions, optimization, and the relation of respone rate to reinforcer rate. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 85, 57-71.

McDowell, J. J, & Ansari, Z. (2005). The quantitative law of effect is a robust emergent property of an evolutionary algorithm for reinforcement learning. In M. Capcarrere, A. Freitas, P. Bentley, C. Johnson, & J. Timmis (Eds.), Advances in Artificial Life: ECAL 2005, LNAI 3630 (pp. 413-422). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

Soto, P. L., McDowell, J. J, & Dallery, J. (2005). Effects of adding a second reinforcement alternative: Implications for Herrnstein's interpretation of re. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 84, 185-225.

Dallery, J., Soto, P. L., & McDowell, J. J (2005). A test of the formal and modern theories of matching. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 84, 129-145.

McDowell, J. J (2005). On the classic and modern theories of matching. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 84, 111-127 .

McDowell, J. J (2004). A computational model of selection by consequences. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 81, 297-317.

Dallery, J., McDowell, J. J, & Lancaster, J. S. (2000). Falsification of matching theory’s account of single-alternative responding: Herrnstein’s k varies with sucrose concentration. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 73, 23-43.

McDowell, J. J, & Dallery, J. (1999). Falsification of matching theory: Changes in the asymptote of Herrnstein’s hyperbola as a function of water deprivation. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 72, 251-268.

McDowell, J. J, Bass, R., & Kessel, R. (1993). A new understanding of the foundation of linear system analysis and an extension to nonlinear cases. Psychological Review, 100, 407-419.

McDowell, J. J (1991). Irreconcilable differences and political reality in these dark ages. The Behavior Analyst, 14, 29-33.

McDowell, J. J (1989). Two modern developments in matching theory. The Behavior Analyst, 12, 153-166.

McDowell, J. J (1988). Matching theory in natural human environments. The Behavior Analyst, 11, 95-109.

McDowell, J. J (1988). Behavior analysis: The third branch of Aristotle's physics. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 50, 297-304.

McDowell, J. J (1986). On the falsifiability of matching theory. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 45, 63-74.

McDowell, J. J, Bass, R., & Kessel, R. (1983). Variable-interval rate equations and reinforcement and response distributions. Psychological Review, 90, 364-375.

McDowell, J. J (1982). The importance of Herrnstein's mathematical statement of the law of effect for behavior therapy. American Psychologist, 37, 771-779.

Carr, E. G., & McDowell, J. J (1980). Social control of self-injurious behavior of organic etiology. Behavior Therapy, 11, 402-409.